The longlist for the 2011 Man Booker prize has been released.
The longlisted works are:
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
On Canaan's Side, Sebastian Barry (Faber)
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch (Canongate Books)
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt (Granta)
Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvvette Edwards (Oneworld)
The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)
The Last Hundred Days, Patrick McGuinness (Seren Books)
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller (Atlantic)
Far to Go, Alison Pick (Headline Review)
The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Jane Rogers (Sandstone Press)
Derby Day, D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The shortlist will be released on 6 September and the winner announced on 18 October.
Comments: a number of new authors and publishers here. No Australian that I've noticed. Hollinghurst has won before, and Barnes and Barry have been previously shortlisted. I haven't been keeping an eye on the possibilities this year so I really have no idea who might get the gong. Interestingly, The Guardian reports that Hollinghurst has been installed as 5-1 favourite by the bookmakers William Hill, though the actual site has it at 4-1.
The longlisted works are:
The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
On Canaan's Side, Sebastian Barry (Faber)
Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch (Canongate Books)
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt (Granta)
Half Blood Blues, Esi Edugyan (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
A Cupboard Full of Coats, Yvvette Edwards (Oneworld)
The Stranger's Child, Alan Hollinghurst (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Pigeon English, Stephen Kelman (Bloomsbury)
The Last Hundred Days, Patrick McGuinness (Seren Books)
Snowdrops, A.D. Miller (Atlantic)
Far to Go, Alison Pick (Headline Review)
The Testament of Jessie Lamb, Jane Rogers (Sandstone Press)
Derby Day, D.J. Taylor (Chatto & Windus - Random House)
The shortlist will be released on 6 September and the winner announced on 18 October.
Comments: a number of new authors and publishers here. No Australian that I've noticed. Hollinghurst has won before, and Barnes and Barry have been previously shortlisted. I haven't been keeping an eye on the possibilities this year so I really have no idea who might get the gong. Interestingly, The Guardian reports that Hollinghurst has been installed as 5-1 favourite by the bookmakers William Hill, though the actual site has it at 4-1.
